How to Pray with Your Imagination on Epiphany https://youtu.be/yq4yxxEBGyo 2 Spiritual Exercises to let the light of Christ shine and break into our darkness 1. Imagine the vivid scene of clouds and darkness, pierced by light. Using especially this week's first Mass...
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God and the Gym (Part 1): The Rules of Conduct
My gym has a few things it can teach us church-going folk, especially when it comes to taking liberties with the rules. Rules are made for a purpose and if you don’t like those rules, why are you even here? I thought I’d interpret the gym’s rules for my church...
12 Saint Quotes to Live By
As we begin a new year (liturgical year that is), it is helpful to reflect on our spiritual growth. We can use the wisdom of the saints and the guidance of our Church to direct our path. Use these quotes to guide your prayer time this year and lead you to...
12 Ideas To Celebrate All 12 Days Of Christmas!
We’re not just happy that Jesus was born on December 25. We’re always happy about His coming while we look forward to His second coming! It might only be one time a year that we focus on His birth, specifically, but it’s something we always hold in our hearts. During...
3 Things Mary Teaches Us About How to Follow Her Son | Catholic Bible Study
We invite you to watch Father's video, then prayerfully read the Gospel and reflection. We pray that this might help you in your apostolate, your family, your classroom, or personally... to prepare for and more deeply experience Sunday's Mass, and to better integrate...
7 Surprising Things The Christmas Story Taught Me About Myself
If you were to walk through the narrative of the Nativity story, you’d know it pretty well, right? That’s not a trick question, because I agree, we all know it very well. But what if the reason why we know it so well isn’t just because we’ve heard it year in, year out...
6 Ways You Are Probably Doing Christmas Wrong
I’m sorry that we used such a click-baity title because really we just want you to have the best Christmas possible. So here are 7 ways you (might) be doing Christmas (a little bit) wrong. But better still, here are 7 ways to make your Christmas holier, happier and...
10 Ideas For A Better Spiritual Life In The New Year
Well, the year is wrapping up; pretty soon, we will be ringing in the new year! It’s a time for us to start new. We make vows to go to the gym more, eat better, stay organized, and accomplish career or school goals. As Catholics, it’s important to keep spiritual goals...
It’s the Loneliest Time of the Year… So What Are You Going to Do About It?
Mary was “set apart” for a very specific mission. Sometimes, I feel set apart, too. You know, set apart from friends on a Friday night, watching and memorizing my favorite 90’s rom coms for... well, I’m sure I’ll need those quotes one day. Or out to dinner with my...
8 Battles Against Sin That We Can’t Afford To Lose
Sometimes the culture of relativism makes us think that matters pertaining to evil and the spiritual battle are nothing more than theoretical ideas. We start to believe that our sin is less and less serious. “We must always be vigilant against the deception and...
7 Advent And Christmas Carol Quotes That You Can Pray With This Season
One of the wonderful things about both the Advent and Christmas seasons is the abundance of beautiful hymns and carols. They’re made more special by the fact that they can only be sung once a year! But even so, we can still be overly familiar with some of the more...
Five Feminine Virtues I Learned From The Joyful Mysteries | Part 3: The Nativity
Relations between the sexes: Have they ever been worse? It's enough to tempt one to despair. Thankfully, the Church is a bulwark of sanity in every human realm, not least of all in matters of sex and sexuality, on the deepest, primordial realities of Male and Female....
Is Amazon’s Alexa Catholic? 15 Alexa Skills That Make Us Think She Is
Well, when you ask Alexa if she's Catholic, she will typically reply, "Sorry, I'm not sure," but I have my suspicions that she might be Catholic. There was recently a hoax in which comedian Steve Crowder upset several conservative news outlets and Christians when he...
Starting A New Season Of Your Life | Catholic Bible Study
“He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish.” ~ Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea Every path needs a starting point. In order to leave port, a ship must lose its mooring; in order...
The Video Every Person Involved In Catholic Church Ministry Should Watch
This is an excellent video produced by the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City that helps to explain the process of evangelization and catechesis. Those involved in any type of church ministry within the Catholic faith should take a minute to watch it. If you’ve been around...
44 Of The Best Catholic Books You Should Be Reading This Year
It can be difficult to find a book that encourages you, motivates you, and inspires you in your Catholic faith. We've compiled a list of our favorite Catholic books that were published in 2017. There's truly something for everyone on this list. *We're posting these...
Why Catholics Not Only Can Be, But *Should Be* Judgmental
One of the great Catholic writers of the last century, G.K. Chesterton, poured out ink (by pen and typewriter and secretary) at a level hardly matched before or since. He wrote novels, biographies, essays, editorials, non-fiction books on philosophy and apologetics,...
Is It Ok For Catholics To Get A Tattoo? 5 Things To Consider
In today's video, Fr. Mike Schmitz gives us some things to consider before getting a tattoo. If we do choose to place permanent marks on our bodies, we need to make sure the marks portray values we’ll always identify with and live up to, because tattoos do inevitably...
5 (FREE!) Advent Resources That Will Help You Focus On Jesus
This year's Advent season will be the shortest possible Advent. With Christmas on a Monday, the fourth week of Advent is only one day! This means that you need to make the most of your twenty-two days of preparation for the Birth of Christ. We have five incredible...
5 Ways To Be Mad At God & Open Up To Him In Prayer
I frequently get mad at God (maybe more than I should?... I don’t know whether there's a reasonable limit to these things). The thing is, I used to think it wasn’t okay, that it meant my faith and love were weak. Little by little, with the Holy Spirit’s help, I’ve...
How To Exercise Your Authority as a Child of God | Bible Study
Father Ian VanHeusen presents a Gospel reflection and spiritual exercise for the Feast of Christ the King, Matthew 25:31-46, where Jesus tells His disciples. As adopted children of God, we actually participate in God's Authority. When we celebrate the authority of...
Turned Off By Christ the King? 3 Things I Learned About the Feast from “The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe”
I love C.S Lewis’ book ‘The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe’, and I think I love it more as an adult than when I read it as a child. If you haven’t read the book, I want to say: please read it! It is a subtle yet powerful allegory of Christianity, set in an...
4 Tips to Study Like a Christian
God is looking for us. He wants us to be saints. When we become conscious of this, we can feel a certain vertigo, imagining what He might ask of us and how we would possibly do it. While some individuals have been asked to accomplish certain truly admirable deeds, far...
Are You Prepared To Face Persecution?
Did you ever wish that the The Sound of Music was real? The heroes /heroines, the nuns saving lives, the incredible family? Did it inspire endless daydreams about what you would do if you'd lived in Europe during WWII? The musical was based on the book Sound of Music...
6 Spiritual Lessons I Learned From The Book Of Job
If you haven’t read this Old Testament book, you’ve missed out on a major part of the Jewish spiritual understanding of pain and suffering. I won’t narrate the complete story, but in summary Job had to go through tremendous calamities. He lost his possessions, his...
























